Let’s be honest, in the fitness industry there is a lot of bullshit
Products and equipment that promise unrealistic results, diets that don’t work long term, and pills the TV makes you want to eat. Enough gimmicy nonsense.
Weight matters. Being unhealthy matters. Doing something about it matters.
I had always been a really skinny kid growing up. It was not until I hit 18 years old when I finally reached a healthy adult weight of 159 lbs. I had always been able to eat whatever I wanted to and not have to worry. In fact I tried to gain weight as a teenager through the use of weigh protein and other weight gain products because I hated being so thin. As I entered my early 20′s I was in the best shape of my life. Lean, thin, strong, athletic. It was great, I had a lot of energy, girls took notice of me, and I felt great.
All this changed when I took a desk job at PWC
I was working 65+ hours a week, 6 days a week, with a little time spent on Sundays to catch up. I had no time to do anything but work. It was miserable and one of the main reasons I quit to pursue a creative lifestyle. This kind of abuse on the body is not pretty. Around the time of my exit, I shot up to 175, the highest point I have ever been. It was so bad my father took me aside and told me I was starting to get fat and it was not good. I needed to do something. I was really taken back by this because I had the mentality that I was still that skinny kid, but here I was getting fat because of stress, inactivity, lack of sleep, and no time to focus on myself.
Upon quitting I turned it around
With an exercise regiment, watching what I ate, reducing my stress, and doing stuff that I love. So looking for a fitness product, it has to be comprehensive for me to even consider it. By comprehensive it needs to include workouts, personal development and mindset, nutritional information, be research driven, and time efficient (getting the biggest bang for your buck). This is why I really like Turbulance Training.
The Workouts
The workouts target a variety of muscle areas obviously, but more important than what you work out is how you work out. Turbulance Training is focus on doing 45 minute workouts three times a week. An example workout process of Turbulance Training:
- Perform each Turbulence Training workout for 4 weeks and then switch to a new Turbulence Training workout.
- After every 12 weeks, take one week off from Turbulence Training for recovery purposes. During the recovery week, you may perform light, low-intensity workouts.
- Workout 3 days per week alternating between workout A and workout B.
- Train intervals 3 days per week. These can be done after strength training or on nonstrength training days. Make sure you have at least 1 full rest day per week.
- In week 1, you will follow an A, B, A schedule. In week 2, a B, A, B schedule. In week 3, an A, B, A schedule, and in week 4, a B, A, B schedule.
- Each pair of exercises constitutes a “Superset”. In each Superset, do one set of the first exercise followed immediately by the next (A1 & A2).
- Beginners & Intermediate: Rest 30 seconds after completing the exercises in the Superset (i.e. after A1 & A2).
- Advanced: Rest as little as possible between exercises and supersets. Rest only to take drinks of water or if whenever you feel like you need a break.
- Use the recommended lifting tempo for all exercises (except for any holding exercises like the planks where it is just a static hold). For example, (3×15) 2-1-1 means 3 sets of 15 reps at a 2-1-1 tempo (2 seconds to lower, 1 sec pause, 1 sec to lift)
- Finish each workout with stretching for the tight muscle groups only
I really find the best results come from alternating workouts…
where you combine brief weight lifting workouts focused on what is called “compound exercises” (exercises that involve movements that use many muscle groups) with about 4-6 intervals of running, cycling or body weight circuits to burn off fat while maintaining and increasing your muscle mass. Each workout takes about 45 intense minutes in all. This includes warm-ups and a cool downs, and you perform three of these workouts per week. You also mix things up by switching workout programs every fourth week as to keep your body in turbulence (hence the name) as to avoid plateauing in your progress so you can achieve maximum results.
If you took a moment to view a little bit of the play-list…
you can definitely see that this is an intelligent, research driven course from a certified trainer who cares and understands what he is talking about. I kind of wish we had more professional trainers like this instead of the characitures we always see on TV. Regardless, Turbulance Training is the creation of Craig Ballantyne. A Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS), and author of numerous fitness articles in publications like Men’s Health, Maximum Fitness, and Oxygen. Tubulance Training is scientifically backed and is used by thousands of men and women for burning fat, increasing muscle, and improving your health and energy levels at the same time.
Five Simple Reason Why I like Turbulance
- You can do it in your home. I do enjoy going to the gym. The gym has the right atmosphere for working out…but what if I don’t have a gym to go to? What if I don’t feel like going or am off traveling in another country? What do I do? Just stop working out because I can’t get to a gym? No..that is idiotic. You workout. But HOW do you workout? Sure you can do push-ups and sit-ups or whatever, but seriously, what is the best possible exercises you could do while at home or in your hotel room? Do you know? I sure don’t know. That’s what Turbulance Training is for.
- It’s low cost. The price point for Turbulance Training is not going to break the bank. On top of that the actual workouts don’t require any big expensive equipment. I use a pull-up bar and two dumbbells for my exercises, and many of the circuit training workouts don’t require any equipment.
- Easy to understand instructions. I’m no personal trainer but I have always enjoyed staying fit. With that said, the instructions in Turbulance Training are dead simple with easy to follow with pictures, a Q&A at the end of each chapter, and detailed instructions that leave out the fluff and just get to the point of how to perform the routine properly.
- Low time commitment. There are great products on the market like P90X, but they require A LOT of your time, about two hours a day every day. This is simply unreasonable for many adults. When I was at PWC do you think I had the time to set aside two hours each day to work out? I wish! Turbulance Training is only 45 minutes three times a week. Anyone who is really dedicated to getting in shape can make that sort of time.
- Variation. The science of muscle confusion is real, it’s how you get big results in a short time. Any product that does not include some sort of variation in exercise is incomplete in my opinion. You really do get faster results from mixing up your workouts and the intensity of those workouts.
Wait, you keep mentioning body weight circuits…what exactly is that?
Body weight circuits are an indoor replacement for cardio. For example, you don’t like running, or it’s winter, or you can’t get to the gym to run on the treadmill, you can do a body weight circuit instead. What a circuit consists of is a combination of push-ups, planks, running in place, and knee exercises strung together with no break so you break a sweat and get your heart going. It’s intense but don’t give up!
Diet and nutrition
Diet and nutrition is the most important part of becoming healthy. I don’t care how much you workout, if all you eat is pizza, soda, and beer, you’re not going to see results. Also, any program that does not include a nutritional guide is incomplete. That’s another reason why I enjoy Turbulance Training. It comes with a nutritional outline of what you should be eating to get the best results because again, I am not a nutritionist, I have some idea what I should be eating but really it’s just an assumption. You need a nutritional guide to compliment the workouts because that is exactly how you get amazing results.
Who else is getting results?
Results matter. Actually, results are all that matter when it comes to fitness. So who else is getting a rockstar body with Turbulance? Craig holds a “Turbulance Training Transformation” contest each year and the results from three contestants in particular (Jason, Catherine, and Hal) are really amazing:
What you get from Turbulance Training
There are two versions of Turbulance Training:
- Basic
- Delux
Basic includes:
- The Turbulence Training Manual. 128 pages of nutritional information, training and motivational advice and 9 specific workouts laid out for beginners, intermediate and advanced people in simple easy to follow formats. Don’t forget, you can print out each of your workouts and put a mark for every exercise and workout you have completed. This makes it easy to just follow along and track your workouts. The main focus of the manual is to provide detailed descriptions with photos on how to do each exercise properly for maximum gain.
- Two Workouts especially for abs: Amazing Lower Abs & Turbulence Training for Abs.
- Bonuses for Men: The Busy Dads Workout, Turbulence Training for Mass and the DB-BW Fusion Workout.
- Bonuses for Women: Fit Yummy Mummy by Holly Rigsby, Mastering the Fat Loss Mindset and Turbulence Training for Women.
- The 4 Week Bodyweight Workout.
- The Fusion Fat Loss Program (A guide within specific instructions for meal plans that Craig uses himself to maintain his body).
- The Nutrition Guide by Dr. Chris Mohr. A short and simple guide on what and how much to eat.
- Tranformations Secrets. Interviews done with Craig and other fitness experts like Brad Pilon.
- 30-Day for Maximum Fat Loss Workout.
- A one hour interview with Craig in mp3 format where he explains what Turbulence Training is and how it works.
- 1 month forum access. You get access to Craig’s online forum where you can ask questions and get social support from other members. The forums are active and there is a strong community around what Craig has built. It’s also a great way to get your questions answer.
Delux includes all of the above plus:
- The Turbulence Training 6-Month Bodyweight Manual.
- The Bodyweight 500 Workout Challenge.
- The Athletes 8-Week Training Program.
- The Ultimate Advanced Bodyweight Workout.
- The Bodyweight 1000 Fat Burning Challenge.
Turbulance Training
I highly recommend Turbulance Training for the self started who wants a comprehensive course for losing fat, gaining muscle, and getting in really good shape. It is a digital download course consisting of E-Books, audio and social support by way of a forum run by Chris. So no products will be shipped to you. You get instant access, which for many is awesome, but for those of you who want a DVD to follow along with like an aerobic video series, then TT is probably not ideal for you. If however, you want a hardcore education on how to stay fit without the dependency of a gym, how to eat right, how to lose weight, and how to take control of your fitness so you can take charge of your life you will not be disappointed with:
